NAACP objects to site of Civil War marker

Posted: Thursday, April 07, 2011

By Associated Press

ATLANTA - Officials with the NAACP say they would prefer a different site for a planned historical marker that commemorates the burning of Atlanta.

The Georgia Historical Society plans to install the marker Monday in front of the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive - the street named for the civil rights leader - in Atlanta.

R.L. White, president of the NAACP's Atlanta branch, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that members would like to see the marker placed somewhere else than in the heart of the civil rights historic district.